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School: Teampall Mhuire

Location:
Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 374

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Cures - Burns (continued)

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a burned coal or a lighted match in his mouth. If they lick a burn it is cured.

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Cures - Jaundice

The jaundice is cured with (by using) loaf bread, and black tea, without any sugar in it.

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Cures - Whooping-Cough

The whooping cough can be cured in a lot of different ways also. When you have the whooping cough and if you met a man riding on a white horse, and to ask him for the cure, and the thing he tells you to take you would be cured if you took it.
The milk that the ferret leaves

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Collector
Kathleen Mc Hale
Gender
female
Address
Tooreen, Co. Mayo
Informant
Michael Forde
Relation
not a relative
Gender
male
Address
Tooreen, Co. Mayo
Language
English